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The median mesoscutal keel is a carina.
The median mesoscutal keel is part of the cuticle. The median mesoscutal keel is part of the mesoscutum. The median mesoscutal keel is part of the sclerite.
Tropideucoila rufipes Ashmead, 1903
median mesoscutal keel by Buffington, M. L. 2009. Description, circumscription and phylogenetics of the new tribe Zaeucoilini (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae), including a description of a new genus . Systematic Entomology 34:162-187.
median mesoscutal keel by Miko, I. 2009. -2019 Curator. Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology.
median mesoscutal carina by Buffington, M. L., and S. van Noort. 2012. Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea: Liopteridae). Zootaxa 202:1-154.
alternative definition added over 14 years ago by Istvan Miko
Ranging from a distinct structure continuous from the anterior to the posterior margins of the mesoscutum to present only anteriorly (often with a great degree of variability). Not to be confused with the confluence of the notaulae, as evidenced by Fig. 2D.
Reference: Buffington, M. L. 2009. Description, circumscription and phylogenetics of the new tribe Zaeucoilini (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae), including a description of a new genus . Systematic Entomology 34:162-187.
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